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