Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Before she wrote Blood Red Road, Moira Young was a professional opera singer. Groovy. (Source)
Famed director Ridley Scott loved Blood Red Road so much that he decided to adapt it for film before the thing was even edited. Talk about love at first…uh, read? (Source)
Mary Shelley's The Last Man is widely considered the first ever apocalyptic novel. It was published way back in 1826. You know, just a few years before Blood Red Road came around. (Source)