Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} As Above So Below A Novel of Peter Bruegel by 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 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, , 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 , , Freeware and Realware . Prime Books, 2010. Wares page. Hylozoic, SF novel, Tor Books, 2009. Hylozoic page. , SF novel, Tor Books, 2007. Postsingular page. Mad Professor , Stories, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007. Amazon page. (These stories also appear in Complete Stories. ) , SF novel, Tor Books, 2006, Transreal Books 2016, Night Shade 2019. Mathematicians in Love page. 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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. Electric Story. Reprinted in Transreal Trilogy , 2014. Transreal Books, 2016. Night Shade Books, 2019, Secret of Life page. , SF novel, Bluejay Books 1984, Baen Books 1985, Thunder's Mouth Press 2005. Amazon page. The Fourth Dimension , Nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin 1984. Dover 2014. Amazon page. The Sex Sphere , SF novel, Ace Books 1983. Ereads 2009. Open Road Media 2014. Transreal Books, 2016. Night Shade Books, 2019. Sex Sphere page. The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka , Stories, Ace Books 1983. (All these stories appear in Complete Stories. ) Software , SF novel, Ace Books 1982, Avon Books 1987, Avon Books 1997. Included with Wetware , Freeware and Realware in The Ware Tetralogy , 2010. Wares page. , Nonfiction, Birkhäuser 2982, Bantam 1983, Princeton University Press, 1995, 2004. Amazon page. White Light , SF novel, Ace Books 1980, Wired Books 1997, Four Walls Eight Windows 2001. Transreal Books, 2016, Night Shade 2019. White Light page. Spacetime Donuts , SF novel, Ace Books 1981. Ereads 2009, Open Road Media 2014. Transreal Books, 2016. Night Shade Books, 2019, Spacetime Donuts page. Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension , Nonfiction, Dover 1977. Amazon page. Editing Projects. Be Not Content , by William J. Craddock. Novel of the psychedelic revolution, originally published 1970. Republished by Transreal Books, with an intro by Rudy. Blog post about the book. MONDO 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge , edited with Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. HaperCollins, 1992. (Out of print.) Semiotex(e) SF , edited with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson. Autonomedia 1989. (In print (?) Contact Autonomedia, 55 S. 11th St., Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568.) Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder . Arbor House, 1987. (Out of print.) Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of Charles Howard Hinton . Dover, 1983.. Audio & Video. Like A Passing River . Spoken word and classical music CD, with Roy Whelden, Karen Clark, and American Baroque. New Albion Records, 1995. Cellular Automata . VHS video, Media Magic, 1990. Rudy Rucker's YouTube channel, 2014. Chaos . VHS video, Media Magic, 1990. Several other tapes and videos are available from Sound Photosynthesis.. Other videos are available on Rudy Rucker's YouTube channel. Software. CAPOW Continuous-Valued Cellular Automata. Windows software for simulating 1D and 2D continuous valued cellular automata, 1994-1998. Written by Rudy Rucker and his students. James Gleick's CHAOS : The Software. Written by James Glieck, Josh Gordon, Rudy Rucker and John Walker. Autodesk, 1990. CELLAB . Discrete-Valued Cellular Automata Laboratory. Originally released as CA Lab : Rudy Rucker's Cellular Automata Laboratory . Written by Rudy Rucker and John Walker. Autodesk 1989. Rewritten as the WebCA browser app by John Walker in 2017. The Pop Framework . Windows software framework for creating computer games. HYPERCUBE98. Tumbling Hypercubes. Windows software for visualizing solid and wireframe four-dimensional hypercubes. Written by Farideh Dormishian and Rudy Rucker. DOS Gnarl (Spirograph, Chaotic Vine, Quartic Julia Sets). Three diverse gnarly DOS programs, first published online in HOTWIRED.) As Above, So Below. 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 Rudy Rucker has built upon the what is known and has created for us the life and world of a true 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 best-selling 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, preserved for us in paint by the engaging genius you will meet in the pages of As Above, So Below. CONNECT WITH THE AUTHOR. OFFICIAL SITES. Related Links. SIGN UP FOR AUTHOR UPDATES. MACMILLAN NEWSLETTER. Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers. Book Excerpt Reviews About the Author From the Publisher. EXCERPT. MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE THE FRENCH - ITALIAN ALPS, MAY 1552. Peter Bruegel was looking at his first mountain, a steep, rounded foothill at the edge of the Alps. He and his friend Martin de Vos had never seen anything. Reviews. Praise for As Above, So Below. “Whether he's investigating the fractalized cutting edge of science and math theory, or traveling through Tonga and Tokyo, it's hard to think of a more genial, or more well-informed, tour guide. And like his idol Kerouac, Rucker's a hell of a reporter.” — American Book Review. “This is Rudy Rucker having fun, the purpose of life. In Seek! he's picked a brilliant bunch of his columns, essays, and interviews, a travelogue of discovery from cellular automata to his ‘transreal' fiction. So this is how to be a professor of computing science, write acclaimed nonfiction, become a hit with the cyberpunks, and have an excellent time.” — New Scientist. Reviews from Goodreads. About the author. Rudy Rucker. Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, professor and writer who has twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF paperback original, and has published a number of successful popular books on mathematical subjects, including The Fourth Dimension and Infinity and the Mind. He lives in Los Gatos, California. As Above, So Below : A Novel of Peter Bruegel. 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 Rudy Rucker has built upon what is known and has created for us the life and world of a true 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 best-selling 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, preserved for us in paint by the engaging genius you will meet in the pages of As Above, So Below. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Отзывы - Написать отзыв. AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: A Novel of Peter Bruegel. Pictures at an exhibition, sort of, as mathematician and SF writer Rucker (Spaceland, p. 778, etc.) tells the life of the great Flemish painter.A true lowlander, born in Holland and raised in Antwerp . Читать весь отзыв. LibraryThing Review. Made me want to look at color reproduction's of Peter Bruegel's works. The ones in the book weren't very good. Читать весь отзыв.