Vain

For example, "Scanners Live in Vain" is a very well done story about obsoleting human jobs through advancing technology.

REVIEW: The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith 2009

I don't know if it quite qualifies, but Lewis Shiner's "Love in Vain" also would work.

What's Your Favorite Slipstream Story? 2010

Not since Cordwainer Smith's "Scanners Live in Vain" (certainly a story that turned my world upside down) did an opening of a story grab me.

REVIEW: The World Turned Upside Down edited by David Drake, Eric Flint and Jim Baen 2009

The "events" related in Vain Art of the Fugue literally could happen almost anywhere.

Experimental Fiction 2010

PROS: There are some really outstanding stories such as "A Planet Named Shayol", "Scanners Live in Vain", and "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons", and some really innovative ideas.

REVIEW: The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith 2009

The primary interest in Vain Art of the Fugue is formal; it substitutes for the easy "entertainment" of story a delight in formal manipulation.

Experimental Fiction 2010

Axelrod equates (mistakenly) the amount of wealth one has to elitism, as he tries in Vain to portray Mccain as elitist.

Summer School for McCain and Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Scanners Live in Vain - Cordwainer Smith … set to an hip-hop sound track, perhaps?

Ten Science Fiction Books That Should Be Movies | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2008

“Axelrod equates (mistakenly) the amount of wealth one has to elitism, as he tries in Vain to portray Mccain as elitist.”

Summer School for McCain and Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

Honorable mention also must go to Cordwainer Smith, for such gems of the art as "Scanners Live in Vain" or "Dead Lady of Clown Town."

What Are Your Favorite "Literary" Science Fiction Novels? 2006