Richard's love affair with outer space started when he saw the original "Star Wars" on TV aged four, and he spent much of the ’90s watching "Star Trek”, "Babylon 5” and “The X-Files" with his mum. After studying physics at university, he became a journalist, swapped science fact for science fiction, and hit the jackpot when he joined the team at SFX, the UK's biggest sci-fi and fantasy magazine. He liked it so much he stayed there for 12 years, four of them as editor.
He's since gone freelance and passes his time writing about "Star Wars", "Star Trek" and superheroes for the likes of SFX, Total Film, TechRadar and GamesRadar+. He has met five Doctors, two Starfleet captains and one Luke Skywalker, and once sat in the cockpit of "Red Dwarf"'s Starbug.
Latest articles by Richard Edwards

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They had the power! Saturday morning cartoons introduced many kids to science fiction... and toys, lots and lots of toys

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"Independence Day" isn't technically "The War of the Worlds" but it's still one of the most successful adaptations of HG Wells' genre-defining novel.

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From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring to conquer this unassuming blue dot.

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Brandon Routh's only outing in the cape is more than just a love letter to Richard Donner's classic original movie.

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After the Challenger tragedy, nobody wanted to see a film about five kids on an adventure in space.

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What's with all the boring montages of Jedi and superheroes? It's time to resurrect a lost art.

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The director of 'Close Encounters' and 'ET', an original story, 'X-Files'-style conspiracy theories… 'Disclosure Day' is a welcome escape from the mega-franchises.

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By the power of… what the hell is that? If you thought the patrons of the Mos Eisley Cantina were strange, they've got nothing on He-Man and Skeletor's entourages.

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Conspiracy theories, print media, and James (sorry, Jimmy) Bond collide in an all-too-brief extension of Mulder and Scully's world.

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Mattel's musclebound response to 'Star Wars' had a life of its own

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Stories of NASA and Apollo have passed into folklore, but the equivalent stories from the other side of the Iron Curtain have often been shrouded in secrecy.

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The franchise's latest big-screen outing gets sidetracked in less interesting corners of that galaxy far, far away

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'Star Wars' used to be the ultimate theatrical experience, but have years of Disney+ spin-offs dulled its multiplex appeal?

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How an unlikely transatlantic alliance attempted to bring a Time Lord back from the dead.

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Does the cancellation of 'Starfleet Academy' suggest that lean times are ahead for 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars'?

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Few went to see the movie in theaters, but 'Slither' still proved that Gunn was a director to watch

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A show that began life as a period piece is now unashamedly hard science fiction.

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In space, no one can hear you ask for sun cream

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How do "For All Mankind"'s six decades of space exploration "history" compare with the real thing?

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Because there's more to extra-terrestrial life than humans with prosthetics stuck to their foreheads.

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The movie that took Shakespeare to the stars, and wrote the blueprint for movie space opera.

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Paul Atreides' kids, a Duncan Idaho comeback (kinda), and Robert Pattinson's creepy new role.

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From phone boxes and flux capacitors to black holes and hot tubs, sci-fi has created plenty of ways to explore the fourth dimension.
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