Louis Edward Rosas

What happens when a young boy's dreams of flight fly right into the conflict of his grandparent's generation? In this cautionary tale, a young Japanese boy named Ichiro will have to use his imagination to find more peaceful means to look up to the skies and dream Inspired by true events, Ichiro Dreams In Color is the first illustrated book by author Louis Edward Rosas, the creative force that is American Mishima.

For the first time, American Mishima author Louis Edward Rosas has compiled the three short stories (Robot Planet, Contact at Fiery Cross, and What Shadows May Follow) that make up The Contact Chronicles of Robot Planet in this one Special Edition book. This thrilling trilogy will take you from the discovery of human-like shadows on Mars to Naval UFO encounters over the South China Seas and on to terrifying encounters with the Men in Black, leading to the dramatic conclusion. This Science Fiction trilogy will both entertain and further question if we are truly alone in the universe.

In a direct challenge to the People's Republic of China, the United States Navy has been sent to the South China Sea. They, along with their Japanese allies are there to conduct Freedom of Navigation operations in International Waters near the disputed Spratly Islands chain. But as escalating tensions mount, something extraordinary has taken place. Lurking high up in the clouds at 20,000 feet above sea level, an elusive object of unknown origin or intent has intruded upon contested airspace leaving little room for error. As the geopolitical balance of power inches closer toward armed conflict, it will be up to U.S. Naval Aviator, Lieutenant Commander Eileen Hunter, to push man and machine to avert a war and discover a forbidden truth.In continuation of the intrigue in Robot Planet, American Mishima author Louis Edward Rosas presents a new high-flying adventure that delves into the current geopolitical tensions taking place in the Far East. Contact at Fiery Cross will not only further question if we are alone in the universe, but if so, to what extent have they influenced our affairs.

Japan, 1866, a time of sweeping change and open rebellion. Under threat of subjugation from the industrialized West, the non-hereditary Samurai Clans demand action from the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate. Enter William Merrick of the American Consulate in Hakodate, who is tasked to rescue a group of shipwrecked Americans en route to Edo. As a whirlwind of events unfolds, he unwittingly becomes swept up in a deadly plot by a secretive faction's scheme, who with their American co-conspirators, seek to seize power by eliminating their political rivals and overthrow the Old Order. In a feudal land headed towards civil war ruled by powerful Samurai Warlords divided by loyalties between the Emperor and the Shōgun, the fate of an Empire will be placed in the hands of one man under The Setting Sun.

In preparation for the first manned mission to Mars, NASA's latest robotic rover, Mars Prospector has been sent to the Red Planet to survey potential landing zones. But when something unsettling was captured by the rover's camera, it triggers a series of disturbing events for Dr. Wayne Parsons and his small JPL rover team that will place into question if we are truly alone in the universe.

When the Samurai force known as the Shinsengumi were driven from their base in Kyoto, the tide of Japan's Boshin War had turned against the remaining Tokugawa Loyalists. Of their three surviving captains, no one knew what became of 10th Unit Captain Harada Sanosuke, until now. Based on a real-life 1965 rumor that surfaced in a Japanese newspaper, The Soldier and the Samurai is an epic generational tale of gratitude of a man who claimed to be the famous lost Samurai who mysteriously appeared in Manchuria twenty-seven years after his alleged death at the Battle of Ueno, saving the lives of three Japanese soldiers during the First Sino-Japan War before disappearing again. One man will seek out the truth of what took place during that 1895 encounter and the secret of a mysterious inscription written on the back of a Japanese tanto knife that will alter the course of his family for generations to come

Millions of miles from the nearest human outpost, the gold-laden Deep Space Merchant Vessel Fortin has been highjacked in an act of Space Piracy on her return flight back to Earth. After narrowly escaping to the surface of Eros 3117, Commercial Flight Engineer Mike Connors has found himself marooned and in dire need of medical attention in a place where human life cannot exist. With hours remaining on his dwindling oxygen supply, he must face the alien unknown in the fight of his life. Enter the Ishimaru, a fabled ghost ship of the past where one cannot distinguish reality from an oxygen-starved fantasy. It is here that one man will fight to survive alone in a hostile world far from home.

Set during the Bakumatsu Period of Japan (The Last Days of the Tokugawa Shogunate). Hatamoto takes us into the world of the foreign born men who became direct Vassals of the 15th and final Shogun during the opening salvos of the Boshin War. For former American Southerner John Paul Ledoux, he will be given the name Gingiro Asakage and the mantle of the two swords of the Samurai and if necessary, he will fight for it. Faced with the wrath of the Asakage Clan's most senior swordsman, Sir Matsunaga, and an uncertain future, he will do everything to protect those he has sworn to defend.

For every man who pulled a trigger in Vietnam, there were nine men who supported him. This is the story of one of those men: SP4 Luis Rosas-Luca and those who served with him in the U.S. Army's 1st Air Cavalry Air Mobile Division, 15th Transportation Battalion, Delta Company at Camp Radcliff, An Khe in the Central Highlands of the Republic of Vietnam 1965-1966. Overlooking their base stood the Hon Cong Mountain whose shadow lives on as a metaphor for the war's long reach after their tour ended and how it affected these Vietnam Veterans and their families. This book contains over 400 never before seen photographs taken by Luis Rosas during his tour in Vietnam.