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