The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet is a 1996 work of interactive fiction by Graham Nelson, distributed in z-code format as freeware. It won the 1996 Interactive Fiction Competition after being entered pseudonymously under the name "Angela M. Horns" (an anagram of "Graham Nelson"). The game is set in the Zork universe created by Infocom,"Another of the growing pile of games set in the Zork universe (or its twin brother)...." or a copy of that universe."'Sherbet' is an Infocom pastiche, set in a copy of the 'Zork' universe", Nelson has described the connection to the Zork universe as "tenuous.""As the ghost of 'Zork' hangs over all cave games, 'Sherbet' can hardly avoid bringing back memories: when designing the milieu, I did have the Zork universe in mind, but as something I wanted only the most tenuous connection to." Sherbet uses a similarly light-hearted style to the original Zork games. The game resembles a traditional Zork-style dungeon-crawl, with some additional twists.
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External links Game entry at IFWiki