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A children’s book by this author takes place on a moon whose orbit is a "Process Too Complicated To Explain” and a city whose residents eat “glumfish.” This author wrote a novel where a doctor comes home to his (10[1])wife covered in blood, which she mistakes for Mercurochrome. The mountaineer Allie Cone is murdered in a book by this author by a man who believes (10[1])himself to be the angel Gabriel after surviving (10[1])a plane crash over the (10[2])English (10[1])Channel (10[2])with Saladin. (10[1])In a novel by this author, telepathic powers are acquired by all babies born at the hour of India’s partition. For 10 points, name this British-Indian author of Midnight’s Children and (10[1])The Satanic (10[1])Verses. (10[1])■END■

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