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[2])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 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. In a novel (10[1])by (10[1])this (10[1])author, telepathic powers are acquired by all babies born at (10[1])the hour (10[1])of India’s partition. For 10 points, name this British-Indian author of Midnight’s Children and The Satanic Verses. ■END■