Worlds to enter. Stories that live there.
Frequency Unknown builds imagined worlds and gathers the stories, records and lives that emerge within them — alongside books about the cities we are still becoming.
Fiction · R. Delacorme
Worlds to enter.
Frequency Unknown starts with a world: its weather, histories, institutions and silences. The stories are the lives and accounts found there.
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Urban · Remco Deelstra
Ideas to inhabit.
Books on cities, technology, and the conditions of living together.
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Urban · Illustrated book
The Same Bench
Fifty ways of understanding the city through the work of influential thinkers, past and present.
Fiction · Edition
The Green Fog I: Accounts from the Hesswick Coast
Thirty-two stories and documents from a coast that learned to live beside the fog.
Urban · Book
The Urban Professional in the Age of AI
Essays on judgement, institutional memory and public purpose.
Urban · Forthcoming
The Delicate City
A book in development on care, attention and the human scale of urban life.
“A home for worlds, records and ideas that make the familiar feel slightly less settled.”
The project
Frequency Unknown is an independent publishing project initiated by Remco Deelstra. Its fictional worlds are built over time, through stories, documents, images and encounters; its urban books ask how we live with uncertainty in the real one.
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