Will cut to the point - recently, I have gotten a strong urge to re-read a book from my teen years, but for the life of me, I cannot remember the name, and Google has spurned me with irrelevant page after irrelevant page of misinformation. Just to be clear, in order to help out, I will be going through the main theme of the book, which will contain essential spoilers to the story. Just a fair warning. 
Now, the book is a bit of a mix between mystery/drama, sci-fi, and the supernatural. It starts with a teenage boy, being woken up by his alarm, to find that everyone around him has disappeared. He lives on the outskirts of a city (I believe New York), and heads into the city to try and find others. The city is deserted, too, but after finding a boombox, he plays music, and manages to find a company of another guy, and two girls around the same age.
They do a bit of surviving, a bit of soul-searching, and predictably, two couples emerge as they begin to become familiar with each other. The story concludes after the city, inexplicably, begins to crumble around them, and they begin having a hard time breathing as they attempt to run away from the deteriorating state of the city around them.
A wormhole (or w/e) opens up near them at the end, and a bunch of scientists emerge from it, capture them, and I seem to recall they were taken back to earth. It is revealed, that the four teenagers have strong will-powers, to the point where if they believed in something hard enough, their beliefs would become reality. Because of this, they were kidnapped, and brought to either Mars or the Moon, in order to use their minds to terraform the planet/moon, and establish a functional city for them to work from. Since they went to sleep, and woke up later, believing they were still in their homes, it all became reality when they were brought to Mars/the Moon.
But as they began questioning the reality around them, and where everyone disappeared to, the illusion was broken, which is what resulted in the experiment being a failure.
Those are the essential highlights of the story. If anyone here can enlighten me as to the name of this book, I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance!
Now, the book is a bit of a mix between mystery/drama, sci-fi, and the supernatural. It starts with a teenage boy, being woken up by his alarm, to find that everyone around him has disappeared. He lives on the outskirts of a city (I believe New York), and heads into the city to try and find others. The city is deserted, too, but after finding a boombox, he plays music, and manages to find a company of another guy, and two girls around the same age.
They do a bit of surviving, a bit of soul-searching, and predictably, two couples emerge as they begin to become familiar with each other. The story concludes after the city, inexplicably, begins to crumble around them, and they begin having a hard time breathing as they attempt to run away from the deteriorating state of the city around them.
A wormhole (or w/e) opens up near them at the end, and a bunch of scientists emerge from it, capture them, and I seem to recall they were taken back to earth. It is revealed, that the four teenagers have strong will-powers, to the point where if they believed in something hard enough, their beliefs would become reality. Because of this, they were kidnapped, and brought to either Mars or the Moon, in order to use their minds to terraform the planet/moon, and establish a functional city for them to work from. Since they went to sleep, and woke up later, believing they were still in their homes, it all became reality when they were brought to Mars/the Moon.
But as they began questioning the reality around them, and where everyone disappeared to, the illusion was broken, which is what resulted in the experiment being a failure.
Those are the essential highlights of the story. If anyone here can enlighten me as to the name of this book, I would be very grateful. Thanks in advance!
