This final chapter explores the idea that time could consist of a number of parallel and unconnected time-streams. Various considerations against the coherence of this supposition are discussed, and none are found to be compelling. Attention is then focused on fictional time, and the question asked whether the constraints of fictional narrative rule out fictions in which parallel time-series are represented. A number of fictions that appear to present disunified time are discussed, and conclusions drawn, both concerning the nature of real time and of mechanisms of fictional representation.
Keywords: time-streams, disunified time, narrative, fictional time