The bands are in the books, and the books are in the bands. These aren't playlists inspired by the novels—they're canon. Every artist, every album, and every lyric exists inside the same neon-soaked universe as Gun Runners, Billy Bob, and Lunar Limit, written into the story the same way any car, gun, or city block would be.
Outrun Books was never just novels. It's one shared universe told across pages and tracks, where the music carries exactly as much weight as the prose. Each soundtrack runs scene for scene with its book—press play, turn the page, let both halves tell the same story.