Is there any work of fiction where people constantly have to keep moving away from a threat they can't defeat?

[samoyed]

Nearly no fictional character has ever defeated the inevitable passage of time.

 

[Conscience]

Destiny.

The Passage.

 

[danm999]

Book of the New Sun the people of Urth (Earth millions of years into the future) have to keep moving settlements because;

1) The sun is dying and they have to move closer and closer to the equator so they can grow food
2) Their capital city is so ancient and run down they have to keep moving it upriver to escape the pollution caused by chaotic human habitation and the southernmost bits of the city are filled with ancient ruins and barely human mutants

 

[blame space]

here's that invader zim episode i was talking about. "walk for your lives."

 

[MrSpiffing]

The novel Flood by Steven Baxter. It's been a few years since I read it, but the plot involves some seismic event that releases huge bodies water that were contained in the earths mantel. This leads to sea levels rising drastically causing the amount of habitable area to grow smaller and smaller as the water levels rise. Around the end of the book

Spoiler

some of the few survivors watch as the peak of Mt Everest succumbs to the water leaving no land left to inhabit.

 

[ragingbegal]

Red Dead Redemption 2, the Van der Linde gang versus the 20th century.

 

[Fulminator]

I haven't played it, but isn't this a subplot to one of the factions in the game Sins of a Solar Empire?