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