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