Autosaved: Tales from a Lost Galaxy

What do you get when you mix one Balkan childhood, a neighborhood full of semi-feral kids, socialist-era engineering disasters, UFO surveillance duty, exploding PVC pipes, failed lotteries, and a grandmother who could outshout God? You get Autosaved: Tales from a Lost Galaxy — Book 2. This is not a history book. This is a backup of a lost universe — the wild, ridiculous, warm-hearted world of 80s–90s Bulgaria, where children roamed like unsupervised laboratory experiments and somehow survived long enough to tell the story. Follow young Neo/Dobino/Dobi/Dobri (the boy with one name for every disaster) through: • The Great Hose Wars • Socialist boot-camp “Brigades” • Neighborhood séances for profit • Ice-cream diplomacy at “Magura” • Clay-ball warfare and Mercedes revenge • Meteorology powered by wrist-shaking magic • Childhood entrepreneurship, stupidity, and near-genius • Grandmas who could stop wars, men, and wild animals with one shout And cutting through all the chaos, one quiet lesson from a grandfather who survived the real war: “As long as there’s no war — everything else can be survived.” It’s funny. It’s fast. It’s heartfelt. It’s a love letter to a childhood that shouldn’t have worked… but somehow did. If you grew up anywhere between communism and capitalism, between danger and imagination — or if you just enjoy stories where children accidentally invent new safety hazards — this book is for you. Welcome to the chaos. Welcome to the peace. Welcome to the Autosaved universe.