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Side Stapled

Published December 1986

Side Stapled price: $5.00

First edition, First printing
ISBN-13: 978-0-9603146-4-5
ISBN-10: 0-9603146-4-4
Page count: 122
Book Size: 8-1/2"x11"

Comb Binding (GBC)

Published July 2015

Comb Binding (GBC) price: $15.00

Fourth edition, First printing
ISBN-13: 978-1-61037-312-8
Page count: 146
Book Size: 8-1/2"x11"

First edition, first printing of this book was December 1986

If I Ran the Zoo ... Con

The Smofcon 3 Game

by Leslie Turek

This is a book of a "Reality Role-Playing Game." The players move through scenarios representing the Bidding, Planning, and At-Con phases of a World Science Fiction Convention. The game was first introduced and played at Smofcon 3 in Lowell, Massachusetts. In May 1987 MCFI turned over the production and distribution of the book to NESFA. A PC version of the game was to have been produced by SJA in Austin, Texas; it has not been made to date.

Printing History

Side-wire stitched, 8-1/2"x11", iv+109pp., ISBN 0-9603146-4-4, 100 copies (first printing, MCFI), 200 copies (second printing, NESFA), free to Smofcon 3 members, $5.00 afterwards, December 3, 1986.

NOTE: a "few" copies were plastic-comb bound for use at Smofcon 3.

This edition has been superseded by a Second Edition, which was superseded by a Fourth Edition.

Compiled by Leslie Turek