text: At the end of this novel, the protagonist thinks "Zero hour...time to go" after habitually checking hisbroken watch.
full_question: At the end of this novel, the protagonist thinks "Zero hour...time to go" after habitually checking hisbroken watch. A flashback describes how its protagonist's father pursues a relationship with the lab techRamona after the protagonist's mother Sharon abandoned him, taking his pet rakunk Killer. In a narrativethread of this novel, the protagonist travels from the "pleeblands" to the ruins of Paradice. A character inthis novel who attends the Watson-Crick Institute and gets a job with (*) RejoovenEsense took his nicknamefrom the game Extinctathon. This novel's sequel in the MaddAddam trilogy is The Year of the Flood. For 10 points,name this 2003 novel in which Snowman's flashbacks detail his pre-apocalypse life with the two title characters, byMargaret Atwood.
first_sentence: At the end of this novel, the protagonist thinks "Zero hour...time to go" after habitually checking hisbroken watch.
raw_answer: Oryx and Crake