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This article presents the problems and innovative aspects of hypertextual fiction. The hypertextual novel of multiple authors presents the following problem: the notion of the author in postmodern times is dissolved with multiple authorship and copyleft. The time of the discourse is not necessarily lineal, because there is no way to escape from sequentiality in the linguistic sign, but not even in the fragmentary linearity of Rayuela we could approximate to the linearity of the hypertextual story, because it is a polyphonic reality, made of multiple voices. As a consequence, the main characteristic of a novel of these characteristics is polydiachrony.