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- (dated, fandom slang, humorous) A mock deity of early science fiction fandom; a fannish ghod.
- 1956 November-December, Walt Leibscher, “Go, Fan, Go”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly[1], number 2, page 32:
- Neofans and old ones too/Shout the praise of the Great Ghod Ghu,
- 1959, Terry Carr, Ron Ellik (as Carl Brandon), “The Scarecrow”, in The BNF of Iz[2], archived from the original on 21 July 2013:
- "Great Ghu!" said Dorothy. "Why, this must be the True Fandom that I've read about! Where everyone is a fan, even the animals and machines and all!"
- 1991, Peter David, The Rift, →ISBN, page 189:
- “Why in the name of Ghu should we want to?” asked Thak in amazement.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Ghu.