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[Dallis24F]

The Revelation Space Universe has lots of short stories between and around the main Novels and Series making it hard to decide where to begin and what order to read them all. I hope this helps. Get your notepad. LOL
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I got this info here...  http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/45158/suggested-reading-order-of-revelation-space

It's never a mistake to read books in publication order, especially if you intend to read them all.

There is no in-story chronological order to the books, because most of them combine several time streams, sometimes centuries apart.

The events of Revelation Space and Chasm City overlap. The two books are independent, you can read them in either order.

Redemption Ark can be read without having read the other two, however you do meet characters from the first two books. With Chasm City, it's not very important, so you can read RA without having read CC. On the other hand, the characters and events from RS are an important preamble to RA, so I don't recommend skipping RS.

Absolution Gap is a direct sequel to Redemption Ark. Read RA first.

The Prefect was published last of the five novels, but it takes place before the main action of the other four. TP is set before the Melding Plague, whereas the others (except for lengthy flashbacks) are set after. You can read it independently.

The short stories are set all over the timeline. None of them are necessary to read the novels, even when the events of the novels follow those of the short story. A couple of short stories are sequels to the novels, and should be read afterwards.

    “Great Wall of Mars” and “Glacial” precede Redemption Ark both in-story and publication-wise, but you can read RA first. If I haven't missed anything, they're the only two stories that are connected to the plots of the novels, the others are merely set in the same universe.
    “Weather” is best read after Revelation Space, and “Grafenwalder's Bestiary” and “Nightingale” after Chasm City.
    The novellas Diamond Dogs and Turquoise Days can be read at any time, but I recommend reading RS and CC first to establish the scenery.

So my recommendation is to read the novels in publication order, and the novellas and short story afterwards or mixed in publication order.

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I got this info @...  http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2009/06/revelation-space-books-by-chronology.html

The Revelation Space books by chronology
With the news circulating about Alastair Reynolds' major new publishing deal, I've noticed that there's been a fair bit of interest circulating on forums by people who haven't tried reading him before and want to know where to start.

For the stand-alones, it's pretty straightforward. The novels Century Rain, Pushing Ice, House of Suns and the forthcoming Terminal World are all set in their own universes with no link to each other or to his main series. The short story collection Zima Blue also consists of stand-alone stories or stories that are linked to one another, but nothing outside the collection. Out of all of these I would strongly recommend Pushing Ice as a solid starting point for its 'Big Dumb Object' SF style and its use of relativistic science, with some excellent characters and a solid story also present. Century Rain, whilst slightly weaker, does showcase Reynolds' interest in out-of-the-box thinking and his interest in noir thrillers.



The reading order for Reynolds' Revelation Space universe stories is altogether more complex, with the novels overlapping with the short stories (collected in Galactic North) and the two novellas (collected in Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days).

This is the chronological order for the short stories, novels and novellas:

'Great Wall of Mars' *
'Glacial' *
'A Spy in Europa' *
'Weather' *
The Prefect
'Dilation Sleep' *
'Diamond Dogs' **
'Turquoise Days' **
'Grafenwalder's Bestiary' *
'Nightingale' *
Chasm City
Revelation Space
Redemption Ark
Absolution Gap
'Galactic North' *

* Story in Galactic North
** Novella in Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

Whether this is the best reading order for the books or not is debatable. I think it mostly works, although The Prefect may have more impact if read after the trilogy (Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, Absolution Gap) when the reader is more familiar with the Conjoiner and Ultra factions. Also 'Weather' contains the answer to a major mystery from the trilogy about the Conjoiner lighthugger drives and may benefit from being read later on.

What I would say is that 'Great Wall of Mars' and 'Glacial' should definitely be read before the trilogy, as they introduce characters who otherwise show up out of nowhere in Redemption Ark, and 'Galactic North' (the story) should be read after everything else as it explains the (somewhat puzzling) ending to Absolution Gap and puts something of a full stop on the whole series and story. Chasm City can be read before or after the trilogy, but benefits much more from being read before as some of its characters play a role in Revelation Space.
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Alastair's advice:

Q: In which order should I read the Revelation Space books?
 
A: You should read Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap in that order - although I've met people who read and enjoyed them in completely the opposite order. Chasm City, The Prefect, and the collections Galactic North and Diamond Dogs/Turquoise Days can be read in any order, before, after or during the three other books.  @... http://voxish.tripod.com/id17.html
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Confused? Me too.  

[Gweilo]

A good place to start is the collection Galactic North. That has most of the short stories in the Revelation Space universe in chronological order, so that will fill you in on the timeline as you read it.

Here are the stories with the dates they are set:

Revelation Space universe
Great Wall of Mars (2205, published February 2000)
Glacial (2217, published March 2001)
A Spy in Europa (ca. 2330-2340, published 1997)
Weather (2358, published 2006)
The Prefect (2427, published 2007)
Diamond Dogs (ca. 2500 - 2550, published 2001)
Monkey Suit (ca. 2511, published 2009)
Dilation Sleep (ca. 2513-2540, published 1990)
Chasm City (ca. 2517-2524, published 2001)
Grafenwalder's Bestiary (ca. 2540, published 2006)
Turquoise Days (2541, published 2002)
Revelation Space (2524 - 2567, published 2000)
Nightingale (ca. 2600, published 2006)
Redemption Ark (2605 - 2651, published 2002)
Absolution Gap (ca. 2675-3000, published 2003)
Galactic North (ca. 2303-40000, published 1999)



The stories though are stand-alone, they aren't multi-part stories with common protagonists and plotlines continuing through multiple books, but set in a common history.
It's a bit like say Rosemary Sutcliff's British history novels, that range in period from pre-Roman Britain to the 17th C. There are occasional references to characters in other books, but you can read them in any order without worrying about being "spoiled".

There is a great torrent here with several books by Reynolds, multiple version of some books with different narrators.
https://audiobookbay.lu/audio-books/alastair-reynolds-collection-alastair-reynolds-2/

CONTENTS
Alastair Reynolds (All Chaptered)
1997 - A Spy in Europa (Hauenstein) 32k 00.51.22 {11.8mb}.mp3 12 MB
1999 - Galactic North (Hauenstein) 32k 01.36.13 {22.1mb}.mp3 22 MB
2000 - Great Wall of Mars (Avers) 32k 01.45.41 {24.2mb}.mp3 24 MB
2000 - Merlin's Gun (NA) 56k 01.32.30 {37.1mb}.mp3 37 MB
2000 - Revelation Space (Lee) 64k 22.12.46 {611mb}
2000 - Revelation Space (Major) 64k 23.04.35 {638mb}
2000 - Revelation Space (Parsons) 56k 23.28.48 {567mb}
2001 - Chasm City (Lee) 64k 22.58.17 {632mb}
2001 - Chasm City (Major) 64k 25.04.50 {694mb}
2001 - Chasm City (Parsons) 56k 23.28.09 {568mb}
2001 - Glacial (Polk) 32k 01.52.15 {25.8mb}.mp3 26 MB
2002 - Redemption Ark (Lee) 64k 27.19.10 {753mb}
2002 - Redemption Ark (Parsons) 56k 27.53.31 {675mb}
2002 - The Real Story (Morris) 64k 00.52.53 {24.2mb}.mp3 24 MB
2002 - Turquoise Days (Hauenstein) 32k 03.21.21 {46.1mb}.mp3 46 MB
2003 - Absolution Gap (Lee) 64k 27.10.52 {750mb}
2003 - Absolution Gap (Parsons) 56k 29.03.18 {704mb}
2004 - Century Rain (Cartwright) 32k 21.48.31 {303mb}
2005 - Beyond the Aquila Rift (Dheere) 48k 01.12.08 {24.8mb}.mp3 25 MB
2005 - Beyond the Aquila Rift (Hurt) 32k 01.15.54 {17.5mb}.mp3 18 MB
2005 - Pushing Ice (Jones) 96k 19.41.15 {816mb}
2005 - Pushing Ice (Lee) 64k 19.32.27 {538mb}
2005 - Thousandth Night (Mowry) 64k 02.54.00 {79.8mb}.mp3 80 MB
2005 - Understanding Space and Time (Holsopple) 64k 02.04.24 {56.9mb}.mp3 57 MB
2005 - Zima Blue (Hurt) 32k 00.50.34 {11.7mb}.mp3 12 MB
2006 - Galactic North (Lee) 64k 12.56.09 {356mb}
    01 Intro.mp3 0 MB
    02 Great Wall of Mars.mp3 49 MB
    03 Glacial.mp3 49 MB
    04 A Spy in Europa.mp3 23 MB
    05 Weather.mp3 54 MB
    06 Dilation Sleep.mp3 17 MB
    07 Grafenwelder's Bestiary.mp3 47 MB
    08 Nightingale.mp3 70 MB
    09 Galactic North.mp3 40 MB
    10 Afterword.mp3 7 MB
    11 End.mp3 0 MB
2006 - Nightingale (Polk) 32k 02.57.29 {40.8mb}.mp3 41 MB
2006 - Signal to Noise (Polk) 32k 01.56.10 {26.8mb}.mp3 27 MB
2007 - Minla's Flowers (Polk) 32k 02.53.07 {39.9mb}.mp3 40 MB
2007 - The Prefect (Lee) 64k 19.41.11 {543mb}
2007 - The Sledge-Maker's Daughter (Polk) 32k 01.00.37 {14mb}.mp3 14 MB
2007 - The Sledge-Maker's Daughter (Severson) 64k 00.54.31 {25mb}.mp3 25 MB
2008 - House of Suns (Lee) 64k 18.17.19 {504mb}
2008 - The Six Directions of Space (Polk) 32k 02.50.20 {39.1mb}.mp3 39 MB
2008 - The Star Surgeons Apprentice (Zeiger) 96k 01.15.39 {52.1mb}.mp3 52 MB
2010 - Terminal World (Lee) 64k 19.45.55 {543mb}
2010 - Troika (Dheere) 64k 02.28.17 {67.9mb}.mp3 68 MB
2011 - The Old Man and the Martian Sea (Trevathan) 96k 00.59.51 {41.3mb}.mp3 41 MB
2012 - Blue Remembered Earth (Holdbrook-Smith) 96k 21.44.27 {897mb}

You don't have to get all 11.5 GB at once. You can just get the parts you want and leave the others for later: go to the file tab of your client.
in uTorrent, first select all files (ctrl-A) and then right-click "Don't download", then select the files you do want and right-click "Priority: normal" and start it. But of course do seed back what you have.

[SophieNY]

and here is the NEW addition!!!

https://audiobookbay.lu/audio-books/diamond-dogs-turquoise-days-revelation-space-book-6-alastair-reynolds/