So, I've got two ideas that are fairly far along and at the stage of plot outline, story structure, and characters and even prologues all done, I like both equally but would probably work better on one then the other than in tandem. I thought this might be the place to throw myself at the mercy of the potential readership as a tie breaker and ask which of the two ideas people like better.
- Fit For Heroes - A worse end to the Great War leaves Britain in 1919 in a much worse place than it was OTL, in spite of actually still "winning". Soldiers strike in the Home Counties, masterless men roam the Midlands, Dominion troops revolt in Wales, the red flag rises above Belfast and Glasgow, police forces go on strike, civil war brews in Ireland, and warships are dispatched to the Mersey... and that's just lifted from OTL. Now, with Kings and Kaisers and politicians dead from the Spanish flu, returning soldiers and those left on the home front have to struggle with a country not fit for heroes, but one that is rapidly changing.
- White Heat - A much stronger majority for Labour in the late 1960s makes the white heat of technological revolution a reality. By 2014 Britain is a very different country - Sinclair vies for a slice of the video game market with Nintendo, people queue round the corner at the crack of dawn to buy the latest Acorn devices, drones dispatch from the travelling post office every morning, hovercraft roam freely across the land and sea, and Britain is in the middle of its worst brain drain for generations. What secrets that a dying man hid in the Royal Mail at Maplin Sands Airport could warrant murder? And why have several people with the same name up and down the country received an identical flash drive?
The prologues for both were published on AH.com in the Writer's Forum awhile back, but if anyone would like a read at them here can post them.