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 (-5[5])eat “glumfish.” This (10[1]-5[1])author (-5[1])wrote a novel (-5[1])where a doctor comes home to his (-5[1])wife covered in blood, which (10[1])she mistakes for Mercurochrome. The mountaineer Allie Cone is (10[2])murdered in a book (10[1])by this (10[3])author by a (10[4])man who believes (10[1])himself to be the angel (10[1])Gabriel after surviving a plane (10[1])crash (10[2])over the (10[1]-5[2])English (10[1])Channel (10[1])with (10[3])Saladin. In (10[4])a (10[5])novel (10[8])by (10[3]-5[1])this (10[7]-5[1])author, (10[1])telepathic (10[1])powers are acquired (10[1])by (10[5])all (10[1])babies (10[3])born (10[1])at (10[6])the (10[1])hour (10[2])of (10[1])India’s (10[2])partition. For 10 (10[4])points, (10[2])name (10[1])this (10[5])British-Indian (10[1])author of (10[2])Midnight’s Children and (10[1])The (10[1])Satanic (10[1])Verses. (10[3])■END■ (10[3])