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Murasaki Shikibu is the best known writer to emerge from Japan's glorious Heian period. Her novel, The Tale of Genji (Genji-monogatari) is considered to be one of the world's finest and earliest novels. Some argue that Murasaki is the world's first modern novelist.
Some people differentiate cyberpunk literature by adding the post-cyberpunk label for works that were written much later and in a different style than William Gibsonâs âNeuromancer,â which is considered as one of the first cyberpunk novels and a prime example of the genre.ome people differentiate cyberpunk literature by adding the post-cyberpunk label for works that were written much later and in a different style than William Gibsonâs âNeuromancer,â which is considered as one of the first cyberpunk novels and a prime example of the genre.