Weapons, vehicles, and starships are all well and good - but trade needs more than that to be profitable. Survival trading will involve raw materials, that will be used to make other things. Thriving trade will be in luxury finished goods - the things that make life fun, rather than just merely tolerable. These pages will describe those goods.
- BioJewels (Jeff Zeitlin) A health monitor that makes a fashion statement - or is it a fashion item that's useful for monitoring health?
- Dress Me Up (Chris Seamans) Children use consumer goods, too - and this one will be enormously popular among them.
- Everfresh Sandwiches (Ken Murphy) A whle new meaning to 'mystery meat'.
- The InterAct Music System (Chris Seamans) A Home Entertainment System.
- Microfoil (Chris Seamans) Something that neither the home workshop nor the ship's locker should be without.
- Old Cleon's Olives (Ken Murphy) Continued rummaging through the aisles of the corner supermarket turns up this interesting addition to the bar cabinet.
- Smart Fabrics (Glenn Grant) The ultimate fashion statement.
- Temporal Tonic Wine (Alan Hume) A source of alcohol-fueled controversy
- TinTailor (Michael Hughes) A solution to the lost-luggage problem.
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