Nowhere Land — K.A. Applegate

K.A. Applegate, best-selling author of the ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD series, presents an exciting and gritty new science-fiction series that combines a little 2001 and a little Survivor for mega-action.

"His idyllic place into the sea like a sandcastle with the tide coming in? Would the Rock hit far across the planet and break the world apart? There'll be so much left to do. So much to say. but what do you say at the end of the world?"

There's a reason for the strange environment of the world the Remnants have landed on. It's not a real world at all. It's a ship and the ship's landscape is computer generated.
Technically enhanced. And when the group finds a power node, a green-glowing cone that's cracing with electricity, they realize that they too can be in control of their bizarre surroundings.