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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 (10[1])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 by a man who believes himself to be the angel Gabriel after surviving a plane crash over the English (10[1])Channel with Saladin. (-5[1])In a novel by this author, (10[1])telepathic powers are acquired by all babies born (10[1])at the hour of India’s partition. For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])name this British-Indian author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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