Alderson disk, a fictional artificial astronomical megastructure
floppy disk | Hard disk drive | hard disk drive | Golden Disk Awards | Universal Disk Format | disk | Alderson, West Virginia | Floppy disk | Alderson disk | Maggie Alderson | Leigh Alderson | John D. Alderson | Hard Disk 20SC | Hard Disk 20 | ESP-Disk | Edwin Alderson | Double-sided disk | disk storage | Poincaré disk model | Macintosh External Disk Drive | Frederic Alderson | Erville Alderson | Disk storage | Disk partitioning | Disk'O | disk (mathematics) | Disk II | Disk formatting | Disk buffer | Disk |
A member of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, an Official Editor of the comic book APA CAPA-alpha, and an early member of gaming fandom, he came into contact with a number of science fiction writers, notably Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, who, in their books, credit Dan Alderson with ideas that inspired some of their science fiction, notably the Alderson drive and the Alderson disk.