Characters in MaddAddam

Toby

Former God's Gardener and Zeb's lover; she teaches the Crakers and retells Zeb's stories to them as the survivors' storyteller.

Zeb

Toby's lover and a wisecracking MaddAddam survivor whose past, including his brother Adam, is told to Toby in the novel.

Also in The Year of the Flood

Crake

The scientist who engineered the Crakers and the plague; his legacy shapes the world the survivors live in.

Also in Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood

Ren

Young survivor from The Year of the Flood who helps Toby rescue Amanda from the Painballers.

Crakers

The gentle, genetically engineered humanoids created by Crake, who live alongside the survivors and absorb Toby's stories.

Amanda Payne

Survivor rescued by Toby and Ren from two violent Painball veterans, who joins the settlement.

Blackbeard (MaddAddam)

Young Craker whom Toby teaches to read and write; he becomes the group's scribe and storyteller and speaks the book's last words.

Adam One

Zeb's half-brother and founder of the God's Gardeners, whose history is revealed through Zeb's flashbacks.

Also in The Year of the Flood

Jimmy (MaddAddam)

Protagonist of Oryx and Crake, whom the Crakers call Snowman; he joins the survivors' camp.