Set in a post-apocalyptic near-future, Oryx and Crake (2003) is told from the perspective of Snowman. Originally named Jimmy, Snowman appears to be the sole survivor of a global pandemic and now shepherds a band of human-like creatures known as the Crakers.

Where did Crake and Jimmy first see Oryx?

At Paradice, Jimmy met a woman named Oryx, whom Crake had hired to teach the Crakers and to help distribute the BlyssPluss pills worldwide. Jimmy recognized Oryx from a child pornography video that he and Crake had seen when they were teenagers.

What caused the apocalypse in Oryx and Crake?

Crake's reasons for destroying the human race are complicated—revenge against a corrupt and corrupting social order that murdered his father, lack of empathy for the suffering of others, the belief that the earth will be a better place without humanity's many flaws.