"Ghod" is a bit of sci-fi fanspeak.

Some of it goes back to second-fandom in the 30s.

Fancyclopedia three cites Ghu Ghu as the first fannish Ghod invented in the mid 30s and promoted by the Futurians.

( Some of the fanboys [ and girls ] who would later turn pro among this NY area club include; Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Cyril Cornbluth, Virginia Kidd, Damon Knight, Frederik Pohl and Donald A Wollheim,

It also cites fannish speculation that the silent "h" is a way of talking about the supposed gods without validating their existence by using a theistic term.

But the humorous implications are there, and spread to any joking use, or to anything fans hold in "religious" reverence: see "Bheer." :)

On a side note I know you'll love, a second Futurian society was founded in the NYC region by fan Art Saha. Among other things he is credited with inventing is the term "trekkie" and a daughter named Heidi. Heidi Saha is certainly not the first teen girl to cosplay at a Sci-Fi convention. But to a generation weaned on Famous Monsters of Filmland and other Warren Publications, she may be the first teen girl cosplayer they saw celebrated at least a full decade prior to the term "cosplay" entering our vocab from Japan.

( And why should Famous Monsters' publisher Jim Warren or Editor Forrest J. Ackerman have any interest in cosplay? Well the first "futuristcostume" ever worn by a fan was Forry's one in 1939. )

Take THAT anime fandom. ;p

Dante







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