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“…this rare substance, known as ‘dry,’ is only abundant on the planet Klin, a tidally-locked world of which one burning half is always facing its sun while the other frozen half is trapped in an eternal winter’s night.”

welcome to the home of dry: the serial, an original sci-fi series.

read below for a brief description of the show, or click here to read the latest episode: water.

the full episode list is here, and is also available on the sidebar.  season one, entitled the rebellion will run for thirty weeks, with a new episode being posted every friday.

the dry glossary is online now, and is updated through episode 111 (yeah, i’ve kind of fallen behind on this front).  comment to request further definitions.

episode summaries are also available now.  as a given new episode is posted, i’ll post the summary for the episode before along with the new one as sort of a “last time, on dry the serial…” (i hope you read that in an intense, deep, manly voice.)

coming soon: episode 120 [ november 26, 2010 ].

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in the distant future, humans have spread throughout the galaxy.  although no one has learned how to travel faster than the speed of light, physisits have discovered a method by which stable wormholes may be opened, allowing rapid travel throughout the galaxy.

there is, of course, a catch: there is only one substance that can be used to power the “ribbon drives” that open the rifts in space-time.  this rare substance, known as “dry,” is only abundant on the planet Klin, a tidally-locked world of which one burning half is always facing its sun while the other frozen half is trapped in an eternal winter’s night.  only the central strip of the world, known as “the ring,” is comfortably habitable.  the ring is populated by the rich and powerful industrialists of Klin, while the impoverished dry miners are relegated to the searing heat or bone-chilling cold of the planet’s outskirts.

not all miners are satisfied with their lives of constant discomfort, brutally hard labor and constant state of poverty while the rich at Klin’s center reap the benefits of their labor by selling dry to other worlds at exorbitant prices.  rumors of rebellion are growing, and few can predict what will happen in Klin’s future.

the story begins as Issac, a young recent college graduate from the planet Dulvern, arrives on Klin as part of a trading mission.  when things things don’t go according to plan, Issac begins an adventure that will change his life, carry him to the edges of the galaxy, and alter the fate of worlds.