If Pat Cadigan’s club-scene burnout and body mods in “Rock On,” plus the ruthless exploitation streaking through “Mozart in Mirrorshades,” were your jam, you’ll love following Case and Molly through Chiba City’s alleys and the Tessier-Ashpool family’s cold-blooded intrigues. Neuromancer delivers black-ice runs and console-cowboy swagger that make cyberspace feel like urban sorcery.

If the anthology’s VR vibes and memetic hacks—those near-mystical tech turns running through pieces like “Rock On” and the time-twisting exploitation of “Mozart in Mirrorshades”—hooked you, Snow Crash dials it up: Hiro Protagonist duels in the Metaverse, the Snow Crash virus acts like a linguistic curse, and Y.T.’s courier runs carry that same kinetic street energy.

If you were drawn to the ethically flexible hustlers and mercenaries across the collection—say the combat-augmented edge of “Snake-Eyes” and the culture-jamming opportunism of “Mozart in Mirrorshades”—you’ll click with Marîd Audran. In When Gravity Fails, he navigates the Budayeen’s labyrinth of black-market personality mods, cuts deals with Friedlander Bey, and survives by wit more than virtue.

If you loved how Mirrorshades hit you with sharp, self-contained blasts—from the rock-scene grit of “Rock On” to the time-hustle audacity of “Mozart in Mirrorshades”—Burning Chrome delivers a prime cut of the same. You get “Johnny Mnemonic,” “New Rose Hotel,” and the titular “Burning Chrome,” all tight cons and ice-busting jobs that scratch that anthology-sized itch.

If the anthology’s corporate chokehold and cultural commodification—think the manufactured stardom and exploitation in “Rock On” and the imperial profiteering of “Mozart in Mirrorshades”—grabbed you, Hardwired lands hard. Cowboy’s VR dogfights, Sarah’s black-market upgrades, and their guerrilla war against orbital cartels channel that same grim, high-octane dystopia.