“Shards of Eden” transports the heroes of the cycle “A Word about the Dragon”—those who became dragons—into another world. The Ship of Darkness wrecks when it tries to escape from the Zone and crashes onto an astonishing planet: it almost exactly repeats Earth in the age of dinosaurs, yet it does not appear on star maps of dragons and people.
The escapees who are injured during the landing soon learn they have fallen onto an “alternate” Earth created as a result of a grand astrophysicists’ experiment. Convinced that the whole world of dragons is dead, Mрак and his crew try to establish contact with the inhabitants of this world. The book does not give way to the previous one.