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 (-5[1])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 Channel with Saladin. In a novel (10[2])by this author, telepathic powers are acquired by (10[1])all babies (10[1])born at the hour of India’s partition. For 10 (10[1])points, name this British-Indian author of Midnight’s Children and The (10[1])Satanic Verses. (10[1])■END■