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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 wife covered in blood, which she mistakes for Mercurochrome. The mountaineer Allie Cone is murdered in a book (10[1])by this author (10[1])by a man who believes himself to be the angel Gabriel after surviving (-5[1])a plane crash (10[1])over the English (10[2])Channel (10[1])with Saladin. In a novel by this author, telepathic powers are acquired (10[1])by all babies born (10[1])at the hour of India’s partition. (10[1])For 10 points, name this British-Indian author of (10[1])Midnight’s Children and (10[1])The Satanic Verses. ■END■ (10[1])

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