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The National Security Agency (NSA), the main signals intelligence organization of the United States, has been featured in numerous works of spy fiction over the past decades, with its depictions augmenting along with the growing public awareness of this highly-secretive organization. NSA's mystique makes it a popular candidate for the role of a powerful antagonist and the agency has been portrayed performing tasks that are illegal. ==Books== *The 1990 novel ''Terminal Compromise'' by Winn Schwartau followed the life of an NSA agent. It was one of, if not the, first novels under copyright to be published on the Internet by a for profit publishing firm.It became Pearl Harbor Dot Com in 2001 and was the story basis of Die Hard IV. It was released as shareware in 1993. It is currently available from (Project Gutenberg ). *In the novel ''Zeitgeist'' by Bruce Sterling, the physical world could be shaped by ideas, and the NSA's orbiting cameras forced the normal rules to apply, and were used as a threat against the main character, who understood and used the true nature of the universe. *The novel ''Digital Fortress'' by Dan Brown is based mainly in a (fictitious) part of the NSA's facility. *In the 2003 novel ''Warpath'' by Jeffry Scott Hansen the character of Terrance Stewart is an undercover NSA operative who infiltrates a Detroit drug gang. *In the 2005 novel ''The Circumference of Darkness'' by Jack Henderson, the NSA attempts to coopt a hacker for its Total Information Awareness program. *In the Tom Clancy novel ''Red Storm Rising'' the character Robert Toland is an NSA analyst. Typical for his books, he properly depicts the NSA as an agency specializing in SIGINT. The agency is also referenced in the novel ''Teeth of the Tiger''. *Tom Clancy's ''Splinter Cell'' novel series is based on a fictional branch of the NSA called Third Echelon. *In the 2005 published podcast novel ''Earthcore'' by Scott Sigler, various NSA agents are depicted as being ultra-violent and power hungry. *In the comic book ''XIII'', the hero (whose name is not certain) is constantly tracked down by the NSA. *The Lovecraftian science fiction novel ''The Spiraling Worm'' features an NSA agent Jack Dixon, who investigates alien intrusions upon the Earth. *In Greg Iles' ''The Footprints of God'' the NSA attempts to build a supercomputer capable of thought equivalent to that of a human. The main character is a scientist for the project who tries to escape NSA custody after a fellow scientist is murdered by NSA agents. * ''Cryptonomicon'' by Neal Stephenson ends one story thread with cryptographers who were crucial in winning World War II going on to found the NSA. *Most of Patrick Robinson's books feature the NSA *In Steven Gould's novel ''Reflex'', David Rice, a man with the ability to teleport works for the NSA. *In 2009, M.E. Harrigan became the first NSA insider to write a book about the agency since its inception in 1952. In ''9800 Savage Road, A Novel of the National Security Agency'', reality and fiction intersect in a terrifying story of the events leading up to 9/11. *In the Animorphs book #20, ''The Discovery'' (and the two books that follow it), David mentions on a number of occasions that his father works in the NSA. * In the two-part technothriller series ''Daemon'' by Daniel Suarez, the female protagonist is a gifted young cryptanalyst with an eidetic memory working at the NSA. Part of the novels' plot takes place in NSA building OPS-2B. * In the 1994 Judge Dredd novel ''The Medusa Seed'' by Dave Stone, the NSA carries out brutal and illegal medical experiments on children in order to give them psionic powers. * Both of Mark Russinovich novels ''Zero Day'' (2011) and ''Trojan Horse'' (2012) focus around stories of various forms of cyberterrorism. The protagonist(s)—former government agent(s)—and their acquaintances within the NSA are playing a major role in defeating the threats. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「NSA in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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