About the book: year / Planet Milker's Shard, aka Shard, aka Milker, is named after its discoverer, John Milker, who crashed on it. It is inhabited by many types of intelligent beings, which has caused a simplification of laws and public morality, so that life comes down to the principle of “live and do not interfere with the lives of others.” The Criminal Code boils down to the formula “Recover the loss or become a slave.”".