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Originally Posted by Belfaborac
And if you come across any books featuring thoroughly evil and depraved 12 year olds defeating their goody two-shoes adult adversaries, make sure you tell me!
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Well, not so much evil and depraved but more like sociopathically self-interested and superpowered in a short story written by Tanya Huff, which IIRC is available in one of her two collections which are
DRM-free ePub via Kobo (discountable using coupons). Her "If I Were an Evil Overlord" short from the DAW anthology mentioned upthread is somewhere in there too.
And speaking of would-be evil overlords, here's another temporarily freebied @ Amazon indie-written story which I don't vouch for the quality of but may nevertheless be of interest.
This apparently leads into a longer novel about a guy who "tries to help supervillains be more villainous. Or at least more profitable and sensible about the business side of Evil" and ends up in "direct conflict with the greatest superhero of them all, Excelsior. And so, the quiet, restrained intellectual is pitted against heroic force".
Consultation with a Vampire (How to Succeed in Evil) by Patrick E. MacLean
Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant, returns with his manic lawyer Topper and his faithful secretary in this prequel to How to Succeed in Evil. Edwin is approached by a vampire, who offers him the prospect of eternal life if Edwin will help him with the troubles the modern world has presented his kind. It's Edwin versus Nosferatu in this insightful satire of the highly exploited vampire genre.