Philip José Farmer

His World of Tiers series is terrific too. I think I preferred Riverworld, but its a close thing. Master of Universes, the first in the World of Tiers is great, I've read it 3 times I think.

Also good reads: Dayworld, and Dark is the Sun.
 
Hello everyone.
I have a question about one word in one of Farmer's short stories. May be I have chosen wrong thread. If it is so, please tell me where to ask my question.
One of my favourite Farmre's stories is "The God Business". Many times I have read this story in Russian. There are four Russian translations of this story, but unfortunately these translations are of rather poor quality. Not long ago I decided to make my own translation, as close to the text as possible. But one of words, correctly acronym made serious problem for me. One of heroes - major Lewis is "WHAM officer". And what is WHAM? I have searched all dictionaries I had found and nothing seems convincing on context. So, what is WHAM?
Thank you very much and sorry if my question is in wrong thread.
 
Just read that story last year. Picked up a copy of the magazine it first appeared in in an antique store. If no one gets to it before I do I'll check on it when I get home.
 
I'm wondering if the word WHAM, being all upper case letters, might not be the loud sound the Major would make when she "put down her baton" and not the type of officer she was. I suggest that because a few paragraphs later Temper makes reference not only to the fact that her "hand holding the stick (baton I'm assuming) was shaking" but also to her "belligerent attitude". Lacking anything further to go on that's how I would take it.
 
Later we see that she has feelings to Temper, hidden of course. Her shaking and "special" attitude proceed from this fact.
I thought that first letters possibly mean White House... It was one of the theories.
 
A few years back , the syfy chancel did two Riverworld films. :)
 
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