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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. (10[1])The mountaineer Allie Cone is murdered (10[1])in a book by this author by a man who believes himself to be the angel Gabriel after surviving (-5[1])a plane crash (10[1])over the (10[1])English Channel with Saladin. In a novel by this (10[1])author, telepathic powers are acquired (10[1])by all babies born at the hour of (10[1])India’s (10[1])partition. For 10 points, name this British-Indian author of Midnight’s (10[2])Children and The Satanic Verses. ■END■ (10[3])

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