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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} As Above So Below a Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rudy Rucker As Above So Below: a Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rudy Rucker Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} As Above So Below A Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rudy Rucker As Above So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rudy Rucker. Forge Books, 2002. Hardback, paperback, ebook. Buy from Forge/MacMillan. The Forge site also has links to other online sellers. See the Bruegel Notes document that Rucker worked with while writing As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel . If you've read the book and want more references, or if you want information about how the writing of the novel, then you'll enjoy this. Blurbs and Reviews. "A delightful book, one that carries us through the sixteenth-century picture-plane at extraordinary angles, illuminating Bruegel, his art and his world, with warmth and candor." ----- William Gibson, author of Pattern Recognition. "What possesses a popular science fiction writer to write a historical novel about a sixteenth-century Flemish painter enamored of peasant ways? Unbridled fascination with the depiction of worlds real and imagined. Rucker's keen insights into Peter Bruegel's spellbinding and politically subversive work underpin this animated, suspenseful, and affecting tale, a step up from Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring (2000). Biographical information about Bruegel is scant, but Rucker's sense that the painter was lively, compassionate, courageous, and determined feels right, and the characters Rucker invents to flesh out Bruegel's violent and precarious universe are equally compelling, especially the cultured mapmaker Abraham Ortelius, who is so careful to conceal his homosexuality; the sexy and volatile half-Native American, Williblad Cheroo, and Bruegel's smart, saucy wife. Just as Bruegel's paintings are a great joy to behold even as they induce the viewer to face the grimmer aspects of life, Rucker's vivid imagining of Bruegel's trials and triumphs is set against a cutting indictment of the horrors of the Spanish occupation and Inquisition. Bruegel's great gift was his perception of the sacred in the earthy, and Rucker follows suit in this vital portrait of a sweet-natured disciple of life's fecund beauty in a time of cold-blooded tyranny." "Rucker manages the delicate trick of making his tale both exotically foreign in time and space yet resonant with the present day. Much of Rucker's success stems from his obvious identification with his subject. Given a relative paucity of solid historical data about Bruegel, Rucker is able to reverse-engineer the man from his paintings, and the result is a visionary artist who embodies Rucker's own dichotomous concern with the matters both of dirty earth and of numinous heaven." ----- Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine. "Pictures at an exhibition, sort of, as mathematician and SF writer Rucker tells the life of the great Flemish painter. Here we follow Bruegel's story from 1552 to 1569 in sixteen chapters that organize themselves around sixteen of the master's best-known paintings . A lively and well-narrated tale that will appeal to Bruegel fans and may awaken newcomers to an interest in his work." ----- Kirkus Reviews. "As intricate . as one of its subject's own vivid depictions of 16th-century life in the Spanish-dominated Low Countries, Rucker's fictionalized life of Bruegel draws its readers into a teeming world of politics, art, love, sin and loss. This is clearly a labor of love and . it grapples handily with Bruegel's genius --- his ability to wittily and gracefully recreate all human activity, from the sublime to the scatological." ----- Publisher's Weekly. Book Description. Rudy Rucker is an author whose writing thus far has been devoted to nonfiction about science and to genre fiction. He has won awards and achieved a substantial reputation in those fields. But he also has a long-standing fascination with the paintings of one of the great European artists, an interest that has led him to visit museums around the world and to investigate the facts of the artist's life. Peter Bruegel's paintings-a peasant wedding in a barn, hunters in the snow, a rollicking street festival, and many others-have long defined our idea of everyday life in sixteenth-century Europe. They are classic icons of a time and place in much the same way as Norman Rockwell's depictions of twentieth-century America. We know relatively little about Bruegel, but after years of research, novelist, mathematician, and art lover Rudy Rucker has taken what is known and imagined for us the life and world of a master who never got old. In sixteen chapters, each headed by a reproduction of one of the famous works, Rucker brings Bruegel's painter's progress and his colorful world to vibrant life, doing for Bruegel what the bestselling Girl with A Pearl Earring did for Vermeer. We follow the artist from the winding streets of Antwerp and Brussels to the glowing skies and decaying monuments of Rome and back. He and his friends, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, are as vivid on the page as the multifarious denizens of Bruegel's unforgettable canvases. Here is a world of conflict, change and discovery, a world where Carnival battles Lent every day, recorded for us forever by the enigmatic and engaging genius readers will meet in the pages of As Above So Below . As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel. Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Why, oh why, do authors of historical fiction feel the need to cram in every last detail of their research, even if it has nothing to do with the narrative, does not add to the general description, or help build a character? This book is an example of the above phenomenon. It also suffers too often from characters telling us things through dialogue rather than the author showing us through prose. I know this is a book about a painter and his work, but to have characters say "I see that this painting is a painting of. " when it would have made more sense for the author to simply describe the painting is *really* annoying. Add to that dialogue the characters showing us how well researched the book is "Why, isn't that the such-and-such building?" grates as well. There are some redeeming features to this novel, namely that it is about a fascinating and talented author who lived in interesting times - Peter Bruegel. The author gives a good lesson in the life and times of the artist, and many of the secondary characters - map illustrator Abraham Ortelius, exotic Williblad Cheroo, the various loves of Peter's life - are also interesting. However, if you want to read a good book that incorporates the life and work of Peter Bruegel into a novel, you are better off reading 'Headlong' ( ) As Above So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rudy Rucker. Books are listed from newest to oldest. About forty of them. Books edited, multimedia, and computer software appear at the bottom of this page. Million Mile Road Trip , Night Shade Books, 2019. Million Mile Road Trip page . Return to the Hollow Earth , Transreal Books, 2018. Hollow Earth page. Transreal Cyberpunk, 9 Stories with Bruce Sterling, Transreal Books 2016. Transreal Cyberpunk page. Journals 1990-2014, Transreal Books 2015. Journals page. All The Visions , memoir/novel. 2nd ed.,Transreal Books 2014. 1st ed., Ocean View Books, 1991. All The Visions page. Transreal Trilogy, omnibus of Secret of Life, White Light, and Saucer Wisdom. Transreal Books 2014. Transreal Trilogy page. The Big Aha , SF novel. Transreal Books 2013, Night Shade 2019. The Big Aha page . Turing & Burroughs , SF novel. Transreal Books 2012, Night Shade 2019. Turing & Burroughs page . Collected Essays . Transreal Books , 2012. Complete Stories . Transreal Books, 2012. Better Worlds , Art book of Rucker's paintings. Transreal Books 2013. (Updated annually.) Better Worlds page. Surfing the Gnarl , Chapbook with interview. PM Press. 2012. Nested Scrolls , Autobiography. PS Publishing 2011, Tor Books, 2011. Nested Scrolls page . Jim and the Flims, SF/Fantasy novel, Night Shade Books, 2011 & 2019, Transreal Books, 2016. Jim and the Flims page. The Ware Tetralogy , Omnibus of Software , Wetware , Freeware and Realware . Prime Books, 2010. Wares page. Hylozoic, SF novel, Tor Books, 2009. Hylozoic page. Postsingular , SF novel, Tor Books, 2007. Postsingular page. Mad Professor , Stories, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007. Amazon page. (These stories also appear in Complete Stories. ) Mathematicians in Love , SF novel, Tor Books, 2006, Transreal Books 2016, Night Shade 2019. Mathematicians in Love page. The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul , Nonfiction, Basic Books, 2005, Transreal Books, 2016. Lifebox page. Frek and the Elixir , SF novel, Tor Books, 2004. Frek page. As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel , Historical novel, Forge Books, 2002. As Above, So Below page. Software Engineering and Computer Games , Textbook, Addison-Wesley, 2002. Computer Games page. Spaceland , Novel, Tor Books, 2002. Spaceland page. Gnarl! , Stories, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Amazon page. (These stories also appear in Complete Stories. ) Saucer Wisdom , Novel, Tor Books, 1999. Transreal Books, 2016, Night Shade 2019. Saucer Wisdom page. Seek! , Essays, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999. Amazon page. (These essays also appear in Collected Essays. ) The Hacker and the Ants , Novel, !st ed., Avon Books 1994, 2nd ed., Four Walls Eight Windows 2003. Amazon page. Transreal! , Poetry, fiction and nonfiction collection, WCS Books 1991. (Most of the material appears in Complete Stories and Collected Essays ). The Hollow Earth , Historical SF novel, William Morrow & Co. 1990, Avon Books 1992, Monkeybrain Books, 2006. Hollow Earth page. Mind Tools , Nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin 1987. Dover 2013. Amazon page. The Secret of Life , SF novel, Bluejay Books 1985.
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