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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There's something refreshingly familiar about the Omega 47 weapon in "300th Night"

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He-Man prepares to renew hostilities with Skeletor in a live-action reboot of the toy-inspired cartoon. But does he still have the power?

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Few sci-fi characters have exceeded their original programming quite like Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram.

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After an inauspicious debut, Paul Giamatti's space pirate has emerged as a villain to be reckoned with on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.'

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Trapped somewhere between the big ideas of "2001" and the fun of a galaxy far, far away, this 1979 movie is a true space oddity.

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We're going deeper underground; there's too much panic in this town.

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What happened to Captain Benjamin Sisko? This episode won't give you any answers, but it asks all the right questions.

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Think Klingons are just loudmouthed louts with terrible table manners? Think again…

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Starfleet Academy's third mission is remarkably light on peril, but that isn't necessarily a problem

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The new teen-led Paramount+ TV show isn't Trek's first attempt to study at the Academy.

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From the Upside Down through the Devil's Anus and beyond. Here are 6 times these theoretical wormholes turned up in sci-fi shows and movies.

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The power of Grayskull, Superman's cousin, and the return of a certain galaxy far, far away are among 2026's big-screen wonders.

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Watch those skies! In 2025, quality television really did come from outer space.

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As the veteran 'Who' antagonists get ready for their close-up, we look back at 50 years of underwater history.

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They're not part of a vast, Marvel-style universe, and neither is a classic. So why are the "Avatar" movies so successful?

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Ten years on from 'The Force Awakens', we look back at what's gone right and what's gone wrong.

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It's one of the 21st century's best sci-fi shows. If only "The Expanse" had found the audience it deserved.

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As 'The War Between the Land and the Sea' rages on, we look back at the previous TV shows to explode out of the Whoniverse.

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The Sea Devils are back in a brand new 'Doctor Who' spin-off. Here's how to watch 'The War Between the Land and the Sea' online on BBC iPlayer in the UK

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Ahead of 'The War Between the Land of the Sea', we look back at a drama that rewrote the rules of the Whoniverse.

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In 1995, "Toy Story" introduced one of sci-fi's greatest heroes. Thirty years on, Buzz Lightyear is still the pride of Star Command

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Classic "Who" foes the Sea Devils make waves in this Doctor-less, grown-up drama series from the mind of Russell T Davies.

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John Carpenter's Antarctica-set sci-fi classic clearly had a significant influence on "Alien: Earth".
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