Wasteland 2 Novellas Books in Order

The Wasteland 2 Novellas expand a post-apocalyptic world where survival has not made people kinder. Civilization has been broken apart, resources are scarce, and every settlement has its own rules about who gets protection, food, weapons, and power. Stephen Blackmoore's entry, All Bad Things, is a short, bleak story built around faith, violence, and the dangerous certainty of a man who believes he has been chosen.

Luke Samson survived the apocalypse. Finding religion did not make him gentler. His message is simple, "Join or die," and he delivers it with an army of followers who believe they are bringing salvation to the people in their path. As that force moves toward Los Angeles, its promised holy war becomes a direct threat to anyone Samson calls a heathen.

In this wasteland, belief can be another weapon.

The novella follows the momentum of Samson's crusade while gradually revealing that his war has secrets of its own. The tension comes from the gap between the righteous language of the mission and the brutality used to carry it out. Blackmoore keeps the focus tight: this is less a grand tour of the setting than a look at what happens when fear, charisma, and desperation gather around one leader.

All Bad Things is connected to the world of Wasteland 2, but it is designed as a novella rather than a necessary chapter in a longer novel sequence. Readers new to the setting can begin here and understand the basics quickly. The ruined world provides the pressure, while Samson and his followers provide the immediate danger.

The tone is harsh and tense. Violence is part of daily life, but the story is more interested in why people follow someone like Samson and what happens when the truth behind a crusade begins to surface. It is a good fit for readers who enjoy grim post-apocalyptic fiction with a strong villain at its center.

Expect a compact story with a direct line of conflict. There are no easy rescues or clean moral answers. In Blackmoore's corner of the wasteland, surviving the end of the world is only the first problem. The next one is deciding who gets to claim the right to rebuild it.