The Forvm

society, culture, arts, books · EN

The Forvm is a project born of curiosity and a heavy handed dose of nerdiness. We’re here to read the texts that are foundational not only to the Western Canon and history, but to Red Rising itself. The books, memoirs, histories, and plays that are regularly alluded to or used as the framework for the Society serve as both a rich source of thematic elements we love inRed Rising as well as a playground for exploration and discussion. We realized that there's probably other Howlers that want to talk about these books and how they connect to Red Rising as well. These ideas are huge and given how often we pop into each other’s comments sections, it’s evident that exploring them becomes all the more interesting and fun to break down in dialogue with others. So that's what we're going to do; we’ll talk about these books. We'll link them back to the series that we love, but we’ll really focus on the source texts themselves, together with other Howlers. Along the way we hope to